Mathys Tel, Nico Gonzalez, Donyelll Malale: What can we expect from the latest Premier League arrivals? | Football news
Wondering what to expect from some of the biggest imports in January Premier League? Here’s an inner line on Mathys Tel, Donyell Little, Nico Gonzalez and more …
She was heapped in January up and down in the Premier League, with almost £ 400m spent during the month on 45 signatures – for the transfer of compensation, loans or arrival as free agents.
With 29 of them coming from clubs away from these shores, you may not be familiar with skill, quality – and defects – some of the latest division arrivals.
SOME TIGHE SOCTION SHOP SIGHTED Talk about the transfer Podcast during January to give Lon on some of the latest PREMIER League faces – let him fill you with what you can expect …
Nico Gonzalez may be the best available Rodri replacement
He is a good player. He went to Barcelona along with Gavi and Pedri, and was seen as a more physical, kind of dominant player of the three.
And he was a nice dream that Pedri and Gavi and Nico Gonzalez would go through the ranks together.
Pedri is a little older than the other two, but as a trio, they were born and grown La Masia and got the perfect set of skills.
That’s not 6, that’s no. 8, that is no.
Obviously, that didn’t happen. There are many financial questions in Barcelona playing in all this, and injuries to both of them and others.
Nico ended up in Porto and somehow flourished. We know that players who come from Porto and Benfica and the Portuguese League are prone to adaptation really, really good.
Nico is a good player. And I think he brings that frame and that physicality that Rodri has, that city really lacked without him.
He has a 6ft 2in and a strong boy. All other players who have there are not just that short.
And we all watched City playing in the middle of the field all season, thinking why you can’t turn off the attacks?
Nico is an attempt to fix it. But my one question over him is, if that was the answer all the time, why wasn’t that done 33 days earlier?
We know that they somehow approached this contract around £ 40m and eventually paid £ 60m, probably because it was so late.
This would suggest this is not the perfect solution. However, they obviously felt the pressure of time and felt like they had to do something because, at the moment, they were not guaranteed to end up in the top four.
Forget the title. And Nico is probably a good attempt to repair it as I can really see on the market in this late stage.
How good is mathys? It’s hard to flow …
The fight is to find someone who can trust you with sure how good Mathys Tel is at the moment, because in the last two and a half years he has not played much football.
At that time he made nine league starts. And he is one of those players who will probably look back at his career and complain that he has joined the Super Club quite early because he is only 19 years old. It was very, very early in his career, and he really had no records he needed to develop.
Every time you see a tel game, he broke down from the bench in the 70th minute, Bayern is probably two or three goals. On the left flank for several beautiful things, he achieves a few beautiful goals, a few steps, maybe go to the line, take the veterans, whatever.
But what can you actually take from it? What can you really take from the last knocks of a game in which Bayern are two or three, sometimes four or five goals?
You cannot also use his statistics as all his replacement performances are. Last season, for example, he got off the bench 24 times, made six starts and played just over a thousand minutes.
This means that everything that does is statistically completely broken. All his per-90 statistics are everywhere. Therefore, it is really difficult to get measuring how good tel is.
What we know is when he signed for Bayern, he was one of the best young wide strikers in the world. He showed that at the level of young tournaments and probably did not disappear. The potential is still there, but how much is it better? It’s really hard to say.
Why will Kevin Danso be fine to play Angeball
He is a good defender. He is comfortable with the ball in front of his legs. In most categories there are seven out of 10. So it is a large tick. I like it.
When playing for Austria, he plays super-aggressive tall football. We obviously know that the Austrians are pressing as crazy under the ranking rank.
So, if you are wondering if Ange Postecoglou is the style of Ange Postecoglou, I would say that we have enough evidence to say that. And with this athletics, this means that he can recover behind.
It is a nice second crack in the Premier League football because many people will not know that a few years ago he went on loan to Southampton and that was simply catastrophic to him. It’s not really his fault.
I think he played most of his football from his left back under Ralf Hasenhuttl. He made about six appearances, and then he just disappeared again.
But Danso spent a lot of time in England as a young man in academies, MK DONS and other places.
So, it has been waiting for a long time, this crack in the Premier League football. That was scary for the first time. I’m really pleased for him that another one goes to it.
Can Donyelll Malena find your forever home in Aston Vili?
Donyell is a very good player at best. But the constant feedback you got from anywhere that he played Post-PSV is that you don’t see it often enough. I look out for contempt for this transfer, he was previously critical of Manuel Akanji when he signed for Man City and watched him make a ton of mistakes for Borussia Dortmund.
Is it the case that the chaos club that is Dortmund, remove the player from that eco-system, and you put them in the system and under the trainer that really suits them?
What if he finds a small trainer he needs in Unai Emery in recent years, in a very populated system? He has a history of scoring goals, but he had several injuries and was super inconsistent.
He is not a player Villa buys on UP, connecting him and guarantees 10 goals. They see if Unai Emery can do his magic.
